Spec level of epubcheck 4.0

[Ric Wright]

What is the expected level of compliance of epubcheck 4.0, I.e. What version of the epub spec will it validate at present?  I ask because I have some sample widgets from Will Manis and they generate a lot of errors from the current epubcheck build (e.g. Collection element, "link element requires a rel attribute" (which is not correct, it’s optional) and so on. I’m pulling from the IDPF/epubcheck repo and building locally.

Just checking with the experts before I go floundering around.

Thanks

Ric

[Matt Garrish]

Hi Ric,

 

It’s being upgraded to 3.0.1 + edupub.

 

Collections are supposed to allow opf.collection.link*, which makes @rel optional, but the rnc schema currently specifies opf.link*. Definitely a bug.

 

Collections being reported as not allowed is just odd, if that’s what you’re getting. Unless they’re in the wrong position in the file (not after the spine), I can’t reproduce.

 

Matt

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[Ric Wright]

Thanks Matt

Let me dig a bit more

Ric

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[Ric Wright]

Hm.  The collections element is definitely after the spine.  If you want to look at the code itself, I pulled them down from the IDPF repos:

https://github.com/IDPF/componentProtocol

https://github.com/IDPF/componentUtility

Courtesy of Will Manis.

Ric

[Matt Garrish]

I don’t see any epubs in componentProtocol, and the four in componentUtility all validate without error, even after I build and merge. If you could send me the problematic opf file, I can probably eyeball what’s wrong.

[Ric Wright]

Your wish is my command.  :-)

[Ric Wright]

Just a quick update.  I finally got some breathing room and updated my epubcheck from github.  I rebuilt and integrated it into my tool and the errors and warnings from Will’s Widget/SC disappeared… EXCEPT for two errors telling me that iframes are strongly discouraged.  :-)  I see from the issue tracker that Romain has assigned that issue to himself and it will get fixed.

Thanks for the updates, folks.